Moto Guzzi test rides

[Major_Grooves]

I've been sent quite a few letters and emails asking me to take a test ride on the new Moto Guzzi range. I have caved into the pressure and have arranged a test ride on a V11 Le Mans Rosso Corsa.


https://www.combattiva.it/motoguzzi/gfxnew/modelli/grandi/v11rs_01.jpg

I have no idea what these bikes are like so if anyone has a clue please let me know. It will be my first time on a bike with any fairings.

There are another three bikes you can test. I think the Cafe Sport looks best to me, but I thought I'd try something different.

Here are the details from two of the emails I have had from different dealers. I will be at In Moto, in Croydon on Sunday at about 1pm if anybody fancies meeting up.

[iCraig]

Ewwwwww a Moto Scuzzi, Try getting one into neutral

I had a V50 for a while (something which I'd really want to forget) and it was a pain, don't know if Moto Guzzi have come on any since Piaggio (or was it Cagiva) took over them.

I know there still a pain with gearboxes and such.

[Major_Grooves]

Don't worry, the chances of me actually buying one are slim to zero, but it will be nice to have a go of riding something other than my CB500.
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[WildGoose]

lucky bastard, that bike is gorgeous, id love a go on one

i keep getting letters from buell about the firebolt that i signed up for at the NEC years ago, would love to test ride that too
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[hugo-a-gogo]

i love the look of them, i almost got a test of the unfaired one last year but i was too busy and then they sold it.
I'd just be worried it was as crap as some people say they are
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[mr.z]

fwarrrr, i likes them... i'd never own one though, for the price their relyability is questionable, but then the same can be said about some other bikes....
The unfared V11 is my absoloute fave looking bike, but then i am a strange little man.
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[Major_Grooves]

Yeah I prefer the look of this one:

https://www.combattiva.it/motoguzzi/gfxnew/modelli/grandi/v11cs_02.jpg

...but as I say I feel like trying a faired bike.

So what kind of ride should I expect from it. Bearing in mind my bike is a CB500 and the Moto Guzzi is a 1100cc V-Twin, and I have never ridden anything more powerful than my bike?
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[iCraig]

[Major_Grooves]

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Hi

Due to the way the gears work on the back wheel with the shaft drive the back of the bike tends to rise up when you accelerate.

All the best

Keith
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[Major_Grooves]

[hugo-a-gogo]

and if you rev it at standstill the torque reaction can catch you out and tip you off (maybe)
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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them - but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous."
Hunter S Thompson
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[Milo]

[Major_Grooves]

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